This paper discusses two low-cost, low-power video processors for the mobile market. The first core is optimized for motion estimation acceleration. The second targets full video coding applications.

Part one of this two-part article discussed current trends impacting the evolution of data processing architectures, including the implications of higher transistor budgets afforded by Moore’s Law, ...

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Micron’s Automata Processor (AP) uses a unique parallel processing technique that exploits the company’s memory technology (Fig. 1). The parallel processor is similar to an FPGA and a content ...

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Arm just announced a new processor core design aimed at processing data directly in storage devices. With approximately 85% market share of storage processors, this is an important market for Arm. The ...

As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

A word processor is a program designed for creating and editing business and personal documents that are primarily text-based. Most modern word processors enable you to customize fonts and formatting ...

This small-but-mighty mini chopper’s magic is in its blades: Two sharp stainless steel blades spin in each direction for efficient processing and lock into place so you can seamlessly pour out ...

In 1977, John Backus wrote a seminal paper titled, Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? In this paper, Backus defined the implications of what we refer to today as the “memory ...